Leaving users behind and stifling innovation is not the way forward All hopes were raised when, in July 2014, President Juncker announced the Commission’s plan to modernise the EU copyright framework, an objective reiterated in the December Communication. However, the result of over a decade of reflection is a directive which harmonises very few of the existing 20 optional exceptions and also ... [Continue Reading]

For the past months, OFE has been involved in an intensive research process regarding the various arguments and approaches relating to text and data mining (TDM) in Europe, which culminated with the paper published today, titled "An analytical review of text and data mining practices and approaches in Europe".We have done an extensive desk research, including most of the benchmark reports, such as ... [Continue Reading]

The long awaited own initiative report of the European Parliament, on the evaluation of the Copyright Directive (2001/29/EC), has passed the vote in JURI committee today, with 23 votes in favour and 2 against. All 30 compromise amendments have been adopted with a rather large majority every time, showing both the ongoing effort of the rapporteur to find a suitable wording for all political ... [Continue Reading]